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019 _a(OCoLC)979687379
020 _a9781501701450
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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501701450
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501701450
035 _a(DE-B1597)478226
035 _a(OCoLC)919921421
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_bM69 2016
072 7 _aHIS036080
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082 0 4 _a289.9
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMoyer, Paul B.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Public Universal Friend :
_bJemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America /
_cPaul B. Moyer.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.) :
_b11 halftones, 3 maps
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Maps and Figures --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Genesis --
_t2. Numbers --
_t3. Revelation --
_t4. Chronicles --
_t5. Exodus --
_t6. Acts --
_t7. Judges --
_tEpilogue --
_tA Note on Sources --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aAmid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visionaries and prophets established new religious sects throughout the emerging nation. Among the most influential and controversial of these figures was Jemima Wilkinson. Born in 1752 and raised in a Quaker household in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Wilkinson began her ministry dramatically in 1776 when, in the midst of an illness, she announced her own death and reincarnation as the Public Universal Friend, a heaven-sent prophet who was neither female nor male. In The Public Universal Friend, Paul B. Moyer tells the story of Wilkinson and her remarkable church, the Society of Universal Friends.Wilkinson’s message was a simple one: humankind stood on the brink of the Apocalypse, but salvation was available to all who accepted God’s grace and the authority of his prophet: the Public Universal Friend. Wilkinson preached widely in southern New England and Pennsylvania, attracted hundreds of devoted followers, formed them into a religious sect, and, by the late 1780s, had led her converts to the backcountry of the newly formed United States, where they established a religious community near present-day Penn Yan, New York. Even this remote spot did not provide a safe haven for Wilkinson and her followers as they awaited the Millennium. Disputes from within and without dogged the sect, and many disciples drifted away or turned against the Friend. After Wilkinson’s "second" and final death in 1819, the Society rapidly fell into decline and, by the mid-nineteenth century, ceased to exist. The prophet’s ministry spanned the American Revolution and shaped the nation’s religious landscape during the unquiet interlude between the first and second Great Awakenings. The life of the Public Universal Friend and the Friend’s church offer important insights about changes to religious life, gender, and society during this formative period. The Public Universal Friend is an elegantly written and comprehensive history of an important and too little known figure in the spiritual landscape of early America.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aWomen and religion
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aWomen evangelists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen religious leaders
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 4 _aBiography & Autobiography.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
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653 _apolitical innovation, social transformation, Jemima Wilkinson, religious enthusiasm, Revolutionary America, American Revolution, religious upheaval, millenarian movements, Penn Yan, New York, American religious history.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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